William A. Hunt
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1965. Brief but highly educational sojourn in Kilby State Penitentiary, Alabama, as a civil rights demonstrator (Selma, March 1965). Ph.D. Harvard University 1974, somewhat delayed by involvement in anti-war movement and related causes. Taught at Harvard University, 1967-73; University of Michigan 1974-81; St. Lawrence University since 1981 (chair of History Department 1991-1994). Davis Center Fellow at Princeton University 1987-88. Founder-director (since 1989) of SLU Solidarity Project to assist democratization in former Soviet bloc. Awarded Partnership for Peace citation by President George Bush, 1992. Named ABC News "Person of the Week" by Peter Jennings in January 1996 for smuggling computers into besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Books: author of The Puritan Movement: the Coming of Revolution in an English County (Harvard U.P., 1983, paperback 1985); co-author and co-editor of Reviving the English Revolution (Verso, 1989). Various articles on early modern Europe and contemporary eastern Europe. Currently engaged on a history of the recent Bosnian war and a study of the seventeenth century English Revolution. Courses on Western Civilization, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Film and History, Yugoslavia, Revolutions, and various current obsessions. Reasons for studying history: 1) We will all spend more time among the dead than among the living, and history is a way of facing up to this disconcerting fact. 2) There is at least a remote chance that the screw-ups of the past can teach us something useful for the future.
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